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Cornel West says Black Lives Matter a ‘marvelous militancy’
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The Black Lives Matter movement needs to be pushed toward love and justice, said civil-rights leader and former Princeton professor Cornel West on “60 Minutes” Sunday.
“I think that’s a marvelous new militancy that has to do with courage, vision,” he said. “The fundamental challenge always is will their rage be channeled through hatred and revenge … or though love and justice. You got to push them toward love and justice.”
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The Black Lives Matter movement is a product of the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in 2013. After the acquittal of Zimmerman, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter surfaced on Twitter and continued to gain attention with the deaths of other African-Americans at the hands of police.
West is known for using sometimes harsh language; he recently called President Obama “a black puppet of Wall Street.”
“I’m very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X, who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency,” he said.
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